NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers82–75Detroit Pistons

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons

Date: Friday 18 April 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 131st meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terrell Brandon	8–17	2–4	5–5	1	1	2	7	3	0	3	3	23	+6
Bob Sura	5–9	2–5	4–4	3	2	5	3	1	1	6	1	16	+4
Chris Mills	4–10	1–4	3–4	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	4	12	+11
Danny Ferry	6–20	0–5	0–0	1	3	4	3	1	0	2	4	12	+7
Bobby Phills	4–6	1–1	0–0	2	1	3	1	2	0	0	2	9	+4
Tyrone Hill	3–4	0–0	0–5	1	9	10	0	1	0	2	3	6	+2
Vitaly Potapenko	0–3	0–1	4–4	0	4	4	0	0	0	3	4	4	+5
Antonio Lang	0–0	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	-4
Team totals	30–69	6–20	16–22	10	22	32	16	9	1	17	22	82	—

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Grant Hill	4–12	0–0	6–6	2	4	6	7	2	0	1	0	14	-4
Terry Mills	4–7	3–3	3–3	1	2	3	2	1	0	1	1	14	+7
Otis Thorpe	4–6	0–0	3–4	1	4	5	1	2	0	5	1	11	-11
Michael Curry	3–6	0–1	3–4	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	5	9	0
Litterial Green	1–2	0–0	5–6	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	7	+2
Lindsey Hunter	3–9	0–3	0–0	0	3	3	1	0	0	3	3	6	-9
Aaron McKie	2–7	0–2	0–0	0	3	3	1	2	0	4	5	4	-14
Jerome Williams	1–3	0–0	2–2	1	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	4	+4
Theo Ratliff	2–4	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	1	4	-11
Grant Long	1–2	0–1	0–0	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	2	+2
Don Reid	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	-1
Team totals	25–59	3–10	22–25	8	26	34	14	8	1	20	21	75	—

This season

Detroit Pistons 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1996-97.

16 Nov 1996Detroit Pistons 102–98 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Dec 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 81–93 Detroit Pistons
17 Mar 1997Detroit Pistons 82–85 Cleveland Cavaliers
18 Apr 199782–75 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 41–39
Detroit Pistons: 53–27

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Detroit Pistons 144, Cleveland Cavaliers 129.

17 Mar 1997Detroit Pistons 82–85 Cleveland Cavaliers
31 Jan 1998Detroit Pistons 88–90 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.